New right has already co-opted various ideas of
paganism.In kerala,The golden nostalgia of rural life
can be seen in dominant enviornmental
discourses.Earlier,Tom brass(journal of peasants
studies)gave a brilliant analysis of this type of
rural romanticism and its politics in india.
--- Arunima G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Arunima G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Sep 26, 2007 10:08 AM
> Subject: Re: {greenyouth} Re: Visit of Sugathakumari
> teacher at Athirappilly
> and Vazhachal
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > ... confine to kavu, these romantic jaivagramams
> imagine ethnic slavery
> >
>
>
> Just out of interest - in response to the above,
> plus the savarna "green"
> ploy argument raised in an earlier mail- for many
> years - particularly the
> '80s, early '90s there was an interesting
> conjunction between the kerala
> environmentalists and the RSS because of a
> commonality over certain ideas
> about constituting environmental "traditions",
> kerala tanima etc- e.g.
> kavus, "peaceful co-existence" of undisturbed nature
> (read trees, snakes,
> tribals) and so on. Some of these kinds of ideas
> are available within the
> rhetoric of "people's struggles" too. Question is
> where do they depart from
> each other and what is the politics of one's own
> positioning vis -a-visthese?
>
> >
> >
>
>
>
>
> --
> G. Arunima
> Associate Professor
> Women's Studies Programme
> School of Social Sciences
> Jawaharlal Nehru University
> New Delhi 110067
> Tel: 01126704178 (dir)
> 01126704166(off)
> Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
>
____________________________________________________________________________________
Take the Internet to Go: Yahoo!Go puts the Internet in your pocket: mail, news,
photos & more.
http://mobile.yahoo.com/go?refer=1GNXIC
--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
"Green Youth Movement" group.
To post to this group, send email to [email protected]
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For more options, visit this group at
http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB
-~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
